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The bill has bipartisan co-sponsors but a House Republican spokesperson says it is not a priority this fall.

At hospitals around Pennsylvania, there are now fewer available intensive care unit beds than at any point since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the Pennsylvania Health Department.

Republicans in the House Health Committee are challenging the Pennsylvania health department’s order that requires children to wear face coverings at schools to decrease the spread of COVID-19.

State House Republicans are pushing a new proposal that makes significant changes to the commonwealth’s election law.